Publications

The purpose of this section is to provide an overview of the Scottish Prison Service, its purpose and activities. This section also includes information on key risks and issues for the organisation as well as a high-level summary of performance.

To set out in a single document the refreshed SPS governance arrangements in line with recommendations made in Audit Scotland’s Review of Governance Arrangements Report (February 2015) and in an independent report by Polley Solutions Limited SPS Governance Review 2015-16 (February 2016).

The principle objective of SPS is to contribute to making Scotland Safer by Protecting the Public and Reducing Re-offending. SPS aims to achieve this by ensuring the delivery of secure custody, safe and ordered prisons, decent standards of care and opportunities for those in its care to develop in a way that helps them reintegrate into the community on release.

An overview of the Scottish Prison Service, its purpose and activities.

The SPS realises the importance of effective procurement in supporting the SPS’s operational activity, ensuring that SPS derives value for money from its external expenditure and that the goods, services and works procured are fit for purpose.

The SPS realises the importance of effective procurement in supporting the SPS’s operational activity, ensuring that SPS derives value for money from its external expenditure and that the goods, services and works procured are fit for purpose.

The SPS realises the importance of effective procurement in supporting the SPS’s operational activity, ensuring that SPS derives value for money from its external expenditure and that the goods, services and works procured are fit for purpose.

The SPS realises the importance of effective procurement in supporting the SPS’s operational activity, ensuring that SPS derives value for money from its external expenditure and that the goods, services and works procured are fit for purpose.

The SPS has long recognised the importance of effective procurement in supporting the SPS’s operational activity, ensuring that SPS derives value for money from our external expenditure and that the goods, services and works procured are fit for purpose.

This the first of five Scottish Prison Service (SPS) Annual Delivery Plans, which will support the implementation of our Corporate Plan 2023-28.

We have developed a ‘Delivery Plan’ which aims to chart our journey from recovery to renewal across the remaining duration of the Corporate Plan.

This Annual Delivery Plan (ADP) describes the programme of service development and improvement for the year. In this ADP, we detail the Essential Actions we will undertake in 2019/20.

The Advisory Board provides the Chief Executive and senior management team with support, advice and challenge.